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Variational quantum eigensolver(VQE) typically minimizes energy with hybrid quantum-classical optimization, which aims to find the ground state. Here, we propose a VQE by minimizing energy variance, which is called as variance-VQE(VVQE).…

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Computational chemistry is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing, mostly thanks to the development of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. VQE is being studied extensively and numerous optimisations of…

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The role of differential equations (DEs) in science and engineering is of paramount importance, as they provide the mathematical framework for a multitude of natural phenomena. Since quantum computers promise significant advantages over…

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We present a new optimization method for small-to-intermediate scale variational algorithms on noisy near-term quantum processors which uses a Gaussian process surrogate model equipped with a classically-evaluated quantum kernel.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Alistair W. R. Smith , A. J. Paige , M. S. Kim

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for preparing ground states in the current era of noisy devices. The classical component of the algorithm requires a large number of measurements on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Akib Karim , Shaobo Zhang , Muhammad Usman

Quantum chemistry is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers in the near future. For noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, the quantum-classical hybrid framework based on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has…

Quantum variational optimization has been posed as an alternative to solve optimization problems faster and at a larger scale than what classical methods allow. In this paper we study systematically the role of entanglement, the structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Pablo Díez-Valle , Diego Porras , Juan José García-Ripoll

We investigate the performance of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for the optimal flight gate assignment problem. This problem is a combinatorial optimization problem that aims at finding an optimal assignment of flights to the…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is widely regarded as a promising algorithm for calculating ground states of quantum systems that are intractable for classical computers. This promise is typically motivated by the hope of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Manuel Hagelueken , David A. Kreplin , Florian Wieland , Marco F. Huber , Marco Roth

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading approach for near-term quantum computing but face major optimization challenges from noise, barren plateaus, and complex energy landscapes. We benchmarked more than fifty metaheuristic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Vojtěch Novák , Ivan Zelinka , Václav Snášel

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm that produces an upper-bound estimate of the ground-state energy of a Hamiltonian. As quantum computers become more powerful and go beyond the…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given Hamiltonian on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. A particular application is to obtain ground…

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have the potential of utilizing near-term quantum machines to gain certain computational advantages over classical methods. Nevertheless, modern VQAs suffer from cumbersome computational overhead,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Yuxuan Du , Yang Qian , Dacheng Tao

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising framework for tackling complex optimization problems on near-term quantum hardware. Here, we demonstrate that hybrid qubit--qumode quantum devices offer an efficient route to solving…

Quantum optimization algorithms offer a promising route to finding the ground states of target Hamiltonians on near-term quantum devices. None the less, it remains necessary to limit the evolution time and circuit depth as much as possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Chenfeng Cao , Yunlong Yu , Zipeng Wu , Nic Shannon , Bei Zeng , Robert Joynt

Current quantum computers are limited in the number of qubits and coherence time, constraining the algorithms executable with sufficient fidelity. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an algorithm to find an approximate ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Luca Erhart , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Keisuke Fujii

In recent years, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving optimization problems on quantum computers in the NISQ era. However, one limitation of VQAs is their reliance on fixed-structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Gloria Turati , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Solving combinatorial optimization problems using variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) might be a promise application in the NISQ era. However, the limited trainability of VQAs could hinder their scalability to large problem sizes. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Shengbin Wang , Guihui Li , Zhimin Wang , Zhaoyun Chen , Peng Wang , Yongjian Gu , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm for quantum computing applications in chemistry and materials science, particularly in addressing the limitations of classical methods for complex systems. This study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Nia Pollard , Kamal Choudhary